Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 09:16:05 +0200 From: App Deb <appdebgr@gmail.com> To: Steven Susbauer <steven@too1337.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS License and Future Message-ID: <AANLkTindkLkH24GZPNn8cvhf0XSSWX0pozmVn3rJ7tn9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CD4DD2C.1090407@too1337.com> References: <AANLkTi=EKpVrX2xc7oq%2Bp=RCVtUMUmcVYefj7G20yr-O@mail.gmail.com> <4CD45A11.7060002@stillbilde.net> <20101105213433.GC8648@guilt.hydra> <AANLkTin60PyaapfjTQP1G97kOx3b3P-mb6Ffw-A0nL3E@mail.gmail.com> <4CD4DD2C.1090407@too1337.com>
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On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Steven Susbauer <steven@too1337.com> wrote: > Android uses the Java language, but this is not what that suit is about. > Oracle claims the Dalvik VM infringes on their patents. If Android was using > the Java VM there would be no lawsuit. Sun was able to successfully sue > Microsoft for similar reasons in 1997 (incomplete implementation of the Java > standard). Somehow people continued using Java, despite this. Actually they were not. If I remember correctly, the Microsoft Java VM was abandoned because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun one.
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